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The Blues Fake Book
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Melody/Lyrics/Chords Piano/Keyboard, C Instruments - Difficulty: medium
SKU: HL.240082
Melody Line, Lyrics, & Chords for All āCā Instruments. Composed by Various. Hal Leonard Fake Books. Blues. Fakebook (leadsheet notation; spiral bound). With vocal melody, lyrics, chord names and leadsheet notation. 407 pages. Hal Leonard #240082. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.240082).ISBN 9780793558551. UPC: 073999347425. 9x12 inches.
The most comprehensive single-volume blues publication ever, with songs spanning the entire history of the genre. Every major blues artist is well-represented, including Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Billie Holiday, Leadbelly, Alberta Hunter, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Witherspoon, Bessie Smith, Sonny Boy Williamson, and scores of others. Features very easy-to-read engravings of 400 fantastic songs, including: All Your Love (I Miss Loving) * Angel Eyes * Baby Please Don't Go * Basin Street Blues * Beale Street Blues * Bell Bottom Blues * Black Coffee * Crossroads * Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans * Everyday (I Have the Blues) * Fine and Mellow * Folsom Prison Blues * A Good Man Is Hard to Find * Hellhound on My Trail * (I) Can't Afford to Do It * I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues * Ice Cream Man * Lady Sings the Blues * Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) * Lucille * Mean Woman Blues * My First Wife Left Me * Nine Below Zero * Oh! Darling * Road Runner * Royal Garden Blues * St. Louis Blues * Steamroller Blues * Stormy Weather * Sweet Home Chicago * Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do * The Thrill Is Gone * Worried Man Blues * hundreds more!
About Hal Leonard Fake Books
A "fake book" contains songs written in a concise format that includes only the melody and chords, letting you interpret the song's performance as you feel is appropriate. This is great for quickly learning songs by yourself or with an ensemble.
Each song in a fake book only has a single melody actually written out in notes, which is usually the vocal or lead melody. This melody will have the lyrics written beneath the notes, with each word aligned to its corresponding note. Above the notes of the melody will appear the names of the appropriate chords to play - for example, a "C minor" chord would be written as "Cmin" or Cm", rather than writing out all of the notes in those chords as they appeared in the original version of the song.
This format is very compact, which is why you will often see fakebooks containing 500 or more songs.
- Ah'w Baby
- Ain't Gonna Worry My Life Anymore
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- Ain't That Loving You Baby
- Alabama Bound
- Alimonia Blues
- All Aboard
- All Blues
- All My Love In Vain
- All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
- Alright, Okay, You Win
- Angel Eyes
- Apologize
- As The Years Go Passing By
- Ask Me No Questions
- At My Front Door
- Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth
- Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You
- Baby Doll
- Baby How Long
- Baby, Let's Play House
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Baby, Scratch My Back
- Baby, What You Want Me To Do
- Baby What's Wrong
- Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
- Back Door Man
- Backwater Blues
- Basin Street Blues
- Beale Street Blues
- Bell Bottom Blues
- A Big Hunk O' Love
- Big Road Blues
- Billie's Blues (I Love My Man)
- (What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue
- Black Coffee
- Blow, Wind, Blow
- Blue Prelude
- Blue Train (Blue Trane)
- Blue Turning Grey Over You
- Blueberry Hill
- Bluebird
- The Blues Ain't Nothin' But A Woman Cryin' For Her Man
- Blues Before Sunrise
- Blues For Alice
- The Blues Had A Baby And They Named It Rock And Roll
- Blues On The Ceiling
- Blues With A Feeling
- Bo Diddley
- Boogie Chillen No. 2
- Boom Boom
- Born In Mississippi, Raised Up In Tennessee
- Born To Be Blue
- Bottle It Up And Go
- Bourgeois Blues
- Bright Lights, Big City
- Bring It On Home
- Broke And Hungry
- Broken Hearted Blues
- Built For Comfort
- Caldonia (What Makes Your Big Head So Hard?)
- Can't Hold Out Much Longer
- Can't You Hear Me Talking To You
- Canal Street Blues
- Candy Man Blues
- Careless Love
- Check Yourself
- Checkin' Up On My Baby
- Chicago Blues
- Chicago Bound
- Close To You (I Wanna Get)
- Clouds In My Heart
- Cold Weather Blues
- Come Back Baby
- Come On In My Kitchen
- Confessin' The Blues
- Continental Blues
- Cool Drink Of Water Blues
- Country Boy Blues
- Country Girl
- Cow Cow Blues
- Crackin' Up
- Crazy Blues
- Cross Road Blues (Crossroads)
- Cryin' In My Sleep
- Custard Pie
- Dallas Blues
- De Kalb Blues
- Dead Presidents
- Decoration Day
- Devil Got My Woman
- Did You Ever
- Diddie Wa Diddie
- Dippermouth Blues
- Dirty No-Gooder's Blues
- Dissatisfied
- Diving Duck
- Do Me Right
- Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
- Don't Go No Further (You Need Meat)
- Don't Smoke In Bed
- Don't You Lie To Me (I Get Evil)
- Double Trouble
- Meet Me (Down At The Bottom) (Down In The Bottom)
- Down Hearted Blues
- Down In The Dumps
- Drunken Hearted Man
- Dust Pneumonia Blues
- Easy Rider
- Empty Bed Blues
- End Of The Blues
- Every Day I Have The Blues
- Evil (Is Going On)
- Eyesight To The Blind
- Fattening Frogs For Snakes
- Feel Like Going Home
- Fever
- Fine And Mellow
- Five Long Years
- Flip, Flop And Fly
- Folsom Prison Blues
- Foolish Man Blues
- Forty Days And Forty Nights
- Forty-Four
- From Four Until Late
- Further On Up The Road
- Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You
- Georgia on My Mind
- God Bless' The Child
- Going Down Slow
- A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- Good Mornin' Blues
- Good Morning Heartache
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Good Rockin' Tonight
- Goodbye Baby
- Got the Blues, Can't Be Satisfied
- Got To Hurry
- Gulf Coast Blues
- Happy With The Blues
- Have You Ever Loved A Woman
- Heartbreak Hotel
- Hell Hound On My Trail
- Help Me
- Hesitation Blues
- Hey Hey
- Hey Lawdy Mama
- Hey, Pretty Mama
- Hidden Charms
- Highway 40 Blues
- Highway 51 Blues
- Home To Mamma
- Honest I Do
- Honey Bee
- Hootie Blues
- Hound Dog
- How Many More Years
- Howlin' For My Darling
- Hush Hush
- I Ain't For It
- I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares For Me)
- I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues
- I Ain't Superstitious
- I Almost Lost My Mind
- I Believe I'll Make A Change
- I Believe I've Been Blue Too Long
- I Can Make Love
- (I) Can't Afford To Do It
- I Can't Be Satisfied
- I Can't Quit You Baby
- I Can't Stop, Baby
- I Don't Know
- I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
- I Got My Brand On You
- I Got To Find My Baby
- I Got What It Takes
- I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
- I Just Want To Make Love To You
- I Keep Going Back To Joe's
- I Know Your Wig Is Gone
- I Need Love
- I Wanna Put A Tiger In Your Tank
- I Want To Be Loved
- I Want You Close To Me
- I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
- I'm A Man
- I'm A Natural Born Lover
- I'm A Steady Rollin' Man (Steady Rollin' Man)
- I'm A Woman
- I'm Ready
- I'm So Glad
- I'm Tore Down
- I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
- I've Been Dealin' With The Devil
- I've Been Treated Wrong
- Ice Cream Man
- In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down)
- In The House Blues
- It Do Me So Good
- It Hurts Me Too
- It Makes My Love Come Down
- It Seem Like A Dream
- It Serves Me Right To Suffer
- It's A Low Down Dirty Deal
- It's A Low Down Dirty Shame
- It's My Own Fault
- It's Too Bad Things Are Going So Tough
- Jailhouse Blues
- Jelly Roll Blues
- Jim Crow
- Juke
- Just A Dream
- Just Like I Treat You
- Key To The Highway
- Killing Floor
- Kind Hearted Woman Blues
- Kokomo Blues
- Lady Sings The Blues
- Last Night
- The Lemon Song
- Let Me Love You Baby
- Let's Get Down To Business
- Letter To My Baby
- Life Is Like That
- Little Baby (You Go And I'll Go With You)
- Little Queen Of Spades
- Little Red Rooster
- Live Another Day
- Lonely Boy Blues
- Lonesome Whistle Blues
- Long Distance Call
- Long Gone Blues
- Long Gone Lonesome Blues
- Long Road
- Look What You've Done
- Louise, Louise Blues
- Love In Vain Blues
- Love Struck Baby
- Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
- Lovin'est Woman In Town
- loving you
- Lucille
- Mad Man Blues
- Mary Had A Little Lamb
- Matchbox
- Maudie
- Mean Mistreater
- Mean Old Frisco Blues
- Mean Old World
- Mean Woman Blues
- Mellow Down Easy
- Memphis Blues
- Mercury Blues
- Merry Christmas, Baby
- Michigan Water Blues
- Midnight
- Midnight Special
- Midnight Sun
- Milk Cow Blues
- Mind Your Own Business
- Moanin' For My Baby
- Moanin' At Midnight
- Mule Kicking In My Stall
- My Babe
- My Baby Is Sweeter
- My Baby Left Me
- My Country Sugar Mama
- My First Wife Left Me
- My Home Is On The Delta
- My John The Conquer Root
- My Last Goodbye To You
- My Man Blues
- Mystery Train
- New York Town
- Night Train
- Nine Below Zero
- 99 Blues
- No Particular Place To Go
- No Place To Go
- Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Morning
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
- Oh! Darling
- On The Road Again
- One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
- One More Time
- Ooh Wee
- Paying The Cost To Be The Boss
- Peach Orchard Mama
- Pickpocket Blues
- Pinetop's Blues
- Piney Brown Blues
- Please Help Me Get Him Off My Mind
- Please Send Me Someone To Love
- Poison Ivy
- Pride And Joy
- Prison Bound
- Rain Is Such A Lonesome Sound
- Ramblin' On My Mind
- Reconsider Baby
- Riverside Blues
- Road Runner
- Roberta
- Rock Me Baby
- Rocking Chair Blues
- Roll 'em Pete
- Rollin' And Tumblin'
- Rollin' Stone (Catfish Blues)
- Royal Garden Blues
- Rusty Dusty Blues
- Saint James Infirmary
- St. Louis Blues
- The Same Thing
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- See See Rider
- The Seventh Son
- Shady Lane Blues
- Shake that Thing
- Shipwrecked Blues
- Silver City Bound
- Six Cold Feet Of Ground
- Smokestack Lightning
- Some of These Days
- Something Inside Me
- Sorrowful Blues
- Spoonful
- Standing Around Crying
- Statesboro Blues
- Steamroller (Steamroller Blues)
- Stella Mae
- Still A Fool
- Still Got The Blues
- Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)
- Sugar Blues
- Sun's Gonna Shine In My Door
- Sweet Home Chicago
- T-Bone Shuffle
- Tail Dragger
- Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do
- Take It Easy Baby
- Terraplane Blues
- Texas Flood
- That's All Right
- That's Alright
- That's No Way to Get Along
- They're Red Hot
- Things Ain't What They Used To Be
- 32-20 Blues
- This Pain In My Heart
- Three Hours Past Midnight
- Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy
- Three O'clock Blues
- The Thrill is Gone
- The Time Seems So Long
- Tin Roof Blues
- Tishomingo Blues
- Tobacco Road
- Tollin' Bells
- Too Young To Die
- Traveling Riverside Blues
- Trouble In Mind
- Trouble No More (Someday Baby)
- Trying To Get Back On My Feet
- Tupelo (Tupelo Blues)
- Twenty Nine Ways To My Baby's Door
- 23 Hours Too Long
- Vicksburg Blues
- Vida Lee
- Walk On
- Walkin' Blues
- Walking Through The Park
- Wang Dang Doodle
- Wasted Life Blues
- Weary Blues
- Wee Baby Blues
- West End Blues
- When The Lights Go Out
- When You Got A Good Friend
- Whiskey And Wimmen
- Who Do You Love
- Who's Been Talking
- Why Don't You Do Right (Get Me Some Money, Too!)
- Why I Sing The Blues
- Woke Up Cold In Hand
- Woman Alone With The Blues
- Worried Life Blues
- Worried Man Blues
- Yellow Dog Blues
- Yer Blues
- You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover
- You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had
- You Don't Have to Go
- You Don't Know My Mind
- You Gonna Need My Help
- You Know I Got To Do It
- You Know My Love
- You Need Love
- You Shook Me
- Young Fashioned Ways (Old Fashioned Ways)
- Your Funeral And My Trial
Ratings + Reviews
Based on 5 Reviews
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Anonymous
December 15, 2025
Great Fun for Blues Enthusiasts!
What an amazing collection of blues! As an adult learner, the 'intermediate' level is just right for an enjoyable weekend play session. I love diving into songs by greats like B.B. King and Billie Holiday from this 'Hal Leonard Fake Book'. The fake book format is wonderful for just picking up a tune and getting that authentic blues feel. It's a fantastic value for hours of musical exploration.
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Marcus J.
December 15, 2025
Versatile Accompaniment for Vocalists
This fake book is a superb resource for working with vocalists. The clear 'vocal melody' line with 'lyrics' and 'chord names' provides ideal flexibility for accompaniment. The 'intermediate' framework allows for creative interpretation of the piano 'texture,' ensuring I can support the singer dynamically without being rigidly tied to a specific arrangement. A must-have for any blues vocal coach!
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David K.
December 14, 2025
Indispensable Blues Fake Book
Absolutely essential for any gigging musician. This 'Blues Fake Book' has 'chord symbols' and 'vocal melody' clearly laid out for over 400 blues standards, perfect for quick calls. The 'spiral bound' format is a lifesaver on the stand, making page turns seamless. It covers classic artists, making it easy to fulfill requests accurately and professionally. Saves me time and keeps the crowd happy!
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June 22, 2024
Just what I was looking
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